Sixty Symbols has a great new video explaining the laboratory set-up for demoing a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. You can see a close-up from the demo above. Here the pink liquid is Keep reading
Tag: DIY fluids
How Smoke Rings Work
Vortices are a ubiquitous part of life, whether they’re draining down your bathtub or propelling underwater robots. In the latest video from the Lib Lab project, you can learn about Keep reading
How Jet Engines Work
Jet engines are a major part of aviation today, and this great video from the new LIB LAB project breaks down how jet engines operate. It focuses especially on the Keep reading
Make Your Own Dancing Droplets
As a follow-up to last week’s “dancing droplet” post, here’s a video that describes how to recreate the experiment yourself at home. The droplet motion is driven by the two-component Keep reading
Supercooling Water
Supercooling is the process of lowering a fluid’s temperature below its freezing point without the fluid becoming solid. Though this may sound bizarre, it’s an effect you can recreate easily Keep reading
DIY Non-Newtonian Fluids
[original media no longer available] We’ve featured the non-Newtonian fluid oobleck here before, but it bears repeating as a fun and easy exercise for anyone to do at home or Keep reading